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13-10-2021, 03:26 AM
Cut-off time: seven in the afternoon
Urgent eviction. The residents of Los Llanos lived a day of stress, between the rush to collect what was necessary and the fear of losing their homes and businesses
Until seven in the afternoon. That was the time limit that the authorities granted to the more than 700 inhabitants of the La Laguna neighborhood in Los Llanos de Aridane to proceed with the evacuation of their homes.
The lava flows from the Cumbre Vieja volcano, on their capricious path, descend towards this area of the municipality to cause more damage than that already caused in the neighboring neighborhood of Todoque. The center of La Laguna, where the square and the church are located, the place chosen weeks ago by the Kings of Spain to have a meeting with the victims in the first days of the eruption, was yesterday a hive of vans loaded with furniture and family belongings trying to get away from the dominions of the volcano. Marcelino Hernández, president of the Association of Neighbors of La Laguna, recounts the difficult moments that the population of this entire area lived through.
«We already had to suffer with the evacuation of Todoque and see how the volcano took hundreds of houses and farms; now it's our turn , "he says while tying a rope to the railings of a truck full of belongings that he has helped his neighbor Manuel to evict from his home. In total, there are more than 6,200 people who have been displaced from their homes by the fury of the volcano's lava, according to the technical director of the Volcanic Emergency Plan (Pevolca), Miguel Angel Morcuende, yesterday.
n the Central Bar, a few meters from the Parroquia de San Isidro Labrador, they are dislodging all the furniture: chairs, tables, arcade machines, coffee makers, refrigerators ... everything is loaded into various trucks in order to «save what is can, ”says its owner, who remembers that this establishment has been open for more than 40 years. A little further down, near the Volcán de San Juan cooperative, in the Casa Gloria bar the last drinks are served to the customers who are there. Most are regulars, residents of La Laguna and farmers.
Some are optimistic, as far as possible under these circumstances. "I am in the belief that the lava is going to be diverted up there, and it is going to fall to the south," says one of those present.
In front of Casa Gloria there is a hardware store that also sells construction material. One of its owners, Ricardo Martín, resigned that they have been taking out all the material and products they can since Monday morning.
“We put them on pallets and transport them by truck to various warehouses that have been loaned to us. We want to save as much as we can. Ricardo is clear that the laundry will get there and that they will lose the industrial warehouse that he and his brothers have had for more than 25 years, and that it is the economic support of the family. Among the volunteers who help to evacuate this construction materials company is the mayor of Tijarafe, Marcos Lorenzo, who, wearing work clothes and a tired face, tells how important it is at this time to help save those things that are each house more appreciate.
«The solidarity of all the municipalities of La Palma has been shown by this catastrophe. All of us palm trees have understood the seriousness of what is happening in the Aridane Valley, and for that reason any effort that we can contribute is little for what these thousands of people are living in front of this hell of a volcano ”, indicates the mayor.
Although the so-called north wash of the volcano is quite far from this area, all the inhabitants of La Laguna have immediately set out to vacate their houses.
"We have seen what lava has done with our neighbors in Todoque, and I am not going to wait until the last minute," says Manuel as he loads a mattress into a truck.
«Down in Todoque the laundry took away my banana farm; I spent 32 years working in Venezuela to have something here when I returned, and now I have lost it; I'm not going to wait for the lava to steal more from me now, "he says.
Days ago, La Laguna was the shelter of the residents of Todoque, there even mass was celebrated for the faithful parishioners of Saint Pius XI, whose hermitage was destroyed by the wash; now in the neighbors you can see the fear on their faces and the despair. Down the street, two women are busy carrying two large suitcases. His weight is such that even a journalist from TV3 offers to help. A small gesture that is immensely grateful. Nearby in his home, Valentín Ramos, prepares a small trailer to transport his pets, three dogs that he confesses that he does not know what he is going to do with them. "I don't know where we'll go after seven in the afternoon, and I don't know where to put the dogs," this young office equipment technician tells us worriedly. He has his own repair shop in his home garage.
"Here we will leave everything, we take the essentials, I suppose we can return tomorrow and another day to take things out, that will depend on how the lava goes down," he says. The next few hours will be very tense for the residents of the La Laguna neighborhood, as they were for those of the neighboring Todoque neighborhood.
The volcano does not give up and continues with its activity, pouring lava and making new washings at will.
Yesterday was a dark day in the Aridane Valley. The dense layer of ash did not let the Sun rise at any time of the day; But it was also a gray day for thousands of inhabitants who have once again faced the force of the volcano as the maximum expression of Nature.
https://www.canarias7.es/canarias/hora-l...ncia&vli=_
Urgent eviction. The residents of Los Llanos lived a day of stress, between the rush to collect what was necessary and the fear of losing their homes and businesses
Until seven in the afternoon. That was the time limit that the authorities granted to the more than 700 inhabitants of the La Laguna neighborhood in Los Llanos de Aridane to proceed with the evacuation of their homes.
The lava flows from the Cumbre Vieja volcano, on their capricious path, descend towards this area of the municipality to cause more damage than that already caused in the neighboring neighborhood of Todoque. The center of La Laguna, where the square and the church are located, the place chosen weeks ago by the Kings of Spain to have a meeting with the victims in the first days of the eruption, was yesterday a hive of vans loaded with furniture and family belongings trying to get away from the dominions of the volcano. Marcelino Hernández, president of the Association of Neighbors of La Laguna, recounts the difficult moments that the population of this entire area lived through.
«We already had to suffer with the evacuation of Todoque and see how the volcano took hundreds of houses and farms; now it's our turn , "he says while tying a rope to the railings of a truck full of belongings that he has helped his neighbor Manuel to evict from his home. In total, there are more than 6,200 people who have been displaced from their homes by the fury of the volcano's lava, according to the technical director of the Volcanic Emergency Plan (Pevolca), Miguel Angel Morcuende, yesterday.
n the Central Bar, a few meters from the Parroquia de San Isidro Labrador, they are dislodging all the furniture: chairs, tables, arcade machines, coffee makers, refrigerators ... everything is loaded into various trucks in order to «save what is can, ”says its owner, who remembers that this establishment has been open for more than 40 years. A little further down, near the Volcán de San Juan cooperative, in the Casa Gloria bar the last drinks are served to the customers who are there. Most are regulars, residents of La Laguna and farmers.
Some are optimistic, as far as possible under these circumstances. "I am in the belief that the lava is going to be diverted up there, and it is going to fall to the south," says one of those present.
In front of Casa Gloria there is a hardware store that also sells construction material. One of its owners, Ricardo Martín, resigned that they have been taking out all the material and products they can since Monday morning.
“We put them on pallets and transport them by truck to various warehouses that have been loaned to us. We want to save as much as we can. Ricardo is clear that the laundry will get there and that they will lose the industrial warehouse that he and his brothers have had for more than 25 years, and that it is the economic support of the family. Among the volunteers who help to evacuate this construction materials company is the mayor of Tijarafe, Marcos Lorenzo, who, wearing work clothes and a tired face, tells how important it is at this time to help save those things that are each house more appreciate.
«The solidarity of all the municipalities of La Palma has been shown by this catastrophe. All of us palm trees have understood the seriousness of what is happening in the Aridane Valley, and for that reason any effort that we can contribute is little for what these thousands of people are living in front of this hell of a volcano ”, indicates the mayor.
Although the so-called north wash of the volcano is quite far from this area, all the inhabitants of La Laguna have immediately set out to vacate their houses.
"We have seen what lava has done with our neighbors in Todoque, and I am not going to wait until the last minute," says Manuel as he loads a mattress into a truck.
«Down in Todoque the laundry took away my banana farm; I spent 32 years working in Venezuela to have something here when I returned, and now I have lost it; I'm not going to wait for the lava to steal more from me now, "he says.
Days ago, La Laguna was the shelter of the residents of Todoque, there even mass was celebrated for the faithful parishioners of Saint Pius XI, whose hermitage was destroyed by the wash; now in the neighbors you can see the fear on their faces and the despair. Down the street, two women are busy carrying two large suitcases. His weight is such that even a journalist from TV3 offers to help. A small gesture that is immensely grateful. Nearby in his home, Valentín Ramos, prepares a small trailer to transport his pets, three dogs that he confesses that he does not know what he is going to do with them. "I don't know where we'll go after seven in the afternoon, and I don't know where to put the dogs," this young office equipment technician tells us worriedly. He has his own repair shop in his home garage.
"Here we will leave everything, we take the essentials, I suppose we can return tomorrow and another day to take things out, that will depend on how the lava goes down," he says. The next few hours will be very tense for the residents of the La Laguna neighborhood, as they were for those of the neighboring Todoque neighborhood.
The volcano does not give up and continues with its activity, pouring lava and making new washings at will.
Yesterday was a dark day in the Aridane Valley. The dense layer of ash did not let the Sun rise at any time of the day; But it was also a gray day for thousands of inhabitants who have once again faced the force of the volcano as the maximum expression of Nature.
https://www.canarias7.es/canarias/hora-l...ncia&vli=_
